Cybercriminals Building New, Stealthier Networks

ancientribe writes "Cybercriminals are adopting a new method of hiding and sustaining their malicious Websites and botnet infrastructures so they'll be harder to detect, called "fast-flux," according to an article in Dark Reading. Criminal organizations behind two infamous malware families — Warezov/Stration and Storm — in the past few months have separately moved their infrastructures to so-called fast-flux service networks. The article says bad guys like fast-flux not only because it keeps them up and running, but also because it's more efficient than traditional methods of infecting victims' machines." I'm not exactly sure why this is new/different than the more well known open relay proxy networks.

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Re:The word is a useful filter.

[geek2k5]

The media is very good at taking a word and giving their own spin to it. Thus hacker gets a negative connotation.

Do note that 'hack' has a negative connotation in the media industry. Perhaps those of us in the computer world can link that word to various media 'hacks' that need vocabulary training. We do, after all, know how computer based media works.

I seem to recall a sage commenting that one should "Never argue with an organization that buys ink by the barrel."

Perhaps we should update that with "Never argue with geeks whose home computers would make the world's largest computing array."